Save Our Churches!

More than 130 churches have been burned or vandalized across Canada since 2021 — and now another one is gone.

On the night of September 30 — Orange Shirt Day — fire destroyed All Saints Orthodox Church in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, about three hours northwest of Saskatoon. The small, parishioner-run congregation lost a church built by Ukrainian immigrants in the 1950s, along with icons, artwork and stained glass windows that may be impossible to replace. Parishioner Kent Vidal told paNOW the church had been "lovingly cared for by people for decades and decades." The cause of the fire has not been determined and remains under investigation, according to local reports.

Rebel News founder Ezra Levant is heading to Meadow Lake to report from the ashes — to speak with the congregation that lost its spiritual home and to ask the questions the legacy media won't. Watch for his first report from the scene on X, with a full report to follow on The Ezra Levant Show.

Meadow Lake has seen this before. Just an hour away, St. George Anglican Church in Loon Lake burned to the ground in September 2024 — days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — in a fire the RCMP determined was arson. A 25-year-old man was charged.

Help us stand up for Canada's churches:

SIGN THE PETITION DONATE TO OUR INVESTIGATION

Since June 2021, more than 130 churches across Canada have been vandalized, torched, or burned to the ground. Provinces from British Columbia to Nova Scotia have all seen churches damaged or destroyed — and while much of the legacy media and political class have paid little sustained attention, Rebel News has sent journalists across the country to document what is happening firsthand.

It began just weeks after the 2021 announcement that the remains of 215 children had allegedly been discovered in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School — a claim that remains unsubstantiated.

That same June, two Catholic churches on First Nations land in British Columbia's southern interior were set ablaze on National Indigenous Peoples Day. Rebel News' B.C. reporter Drea Humphrey was one of the journalists who travelled to the affected communities to speak directly with the people who had lost their places of worship.

The pattern did not stop there.

Rebel News founder Ezra Levant has travelled to the ashes of burned-out churches in Carman, Manitoba; Maugerville, New Brunswick; and Saint-Romain, Quebec, where a historic church was destroyed despite forty-five firefighters from six municipalities battling the blaze. Now he is on his way to Meadow Lake.

David Menzies travelled to Grande-Anse, New Brunswick, after an arsonist attempted to burn a church to the ground. Alexandra Lavoie has reported from church fires in and around Montreal — and most recently from Bathurst, New Brunswick — while Sheila Gunn Reid has tracked the disturbing pattern nationally.

Loading the map

The incident data did not load. The template expects it at /church-fires-data.js; after uploading the file under Website › Files, set the data-src attribute on #church-fires-app to the URL NationBuilder gives you.

–

Browse every incident as a list

How did we get here?

Watch Ezra Levant's investigation into the church fires, the political response and why Rebel News believes this story deserves sustained national attention:

According to a federal government response to an Order Paper Question from Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, Canada recorded 463 church arsons between 2016 and 2023, including 90 in 2021 alone.

And the fires have continued.

In August 2026, three Christian churches went up in flames within a span of just two weeks. In Vernon, B.C., police currently have no reason to suspect criminal activity in the fire that badly damaged Vernon Alliance Church. In Surrey, investigators were unable to determine the cause of another Alliance church fire. And in New Brunswick, the 109-year-old Saint-Simon Catholic Church — the largest wooden church in the province — was destroyed in a fire authorities determined had been intentionally set. Gilles Mallet, 68, was charged with arson, and Alexandra Lavoie travelled from Montreal to Bathurst to cover his court appearance and speak with the local French-speaking community about what they lost.

Now Saskatchewan has joined the list.

Those distinctions matter. Rebel News does not assume every church fire is an attack. We investigate each incident, speak with the people affected and follow the facts wherever they lead.

What is beyond dispute is that churches across Canada have faced an extraordinary number of fires, vandalism and deliberate attacks in recent years.

Equally troubling has been the response — or lack thereof — from many political leaders and mainstream media outlets.

When former Trudeau principal secretary Gerald Butts publicly said he could understand the anger behind attacks on churches, it reflected a broader unwillingness among some public figures to treat anti-Christian violence with the same seriousness afforded to attacks on other religious communities.

Sign the petition: Protect Canada's churches

We believe attacks on Christian churches must be taken seriously, investigated thoroughly and condemned clearly.

By signing this petition and sharing it, you can help us put pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney, RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme and Minister of Public Safety David McGuinty to take these crimes seriously and work to protect Christian places of worship across Canada.

23,789 signatures

Goal: 40,000 signatures

More than 50 Christian places of worship have been burned or vandalized in a wave of targeted attacks against Christian Canadians, yet government leaders and the RCMP have responded with alarming indifference. As these acts of persecution risk becoming normalized, we must take action. This petition calls on Prime Minister Mark Carney, RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme, and Minister of Public Safety David McGuinty to recognize these attacks as acts of domestic terrorism and hate, take decisive action to end them, and ensure the safety of Christian communities. Regardless of your faith, stand with us by signing and sharing this petition to Save Our Churches.

Help us investigate Canada's church fires

Rebel News will keep sending our journalists to the small towns and forgotten communities the national media won't visit — but we can't do it alone.

Flights, hotels, rental cars, camera crews and other reporting costs add up quickly — including Ezra's trip to Meadow Lake: a flight to Saskatoon, a three-hour drive each way, and a same-day turnaround to get the story out fast. Your donation helps us put journalists on the ground, speak directly with the people affected and investigate what actually happened.

Sometimes the evidence points to arson. Sometimes it doesn't. Our job is to go there, ask the questions and tell you what we find.

With your support, we can make sure attacks on churches are never ignored and continue defending religious freedom in Canada.